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The magistrate's name is difficult to read. The first specimen wasread by BMC as ƐΠΙ ΓΡΑ ΜΑΡΚΟΥ, the second by von Aulock as επι Γ Φλ Ναικου (although the editor of LGPN suggested changing Ναϊκός to Λαϊκός, even though Ναϊκός is attested on an inscription at Aphrodisias), and a new specimen in the Aiello collection has been read in GRPCL as ΕΠΙ Γ ΦΛ ΜΑΡΚΟΥ. We can agree on Γ ΦΛ rather than ΓΡΑ, but the third name remains elusive, even though all three coins are from the same die (which seems to have been slightly damaged at the critical spot). We need to await a clearer specimen or a new die (quite likely as no coins are yet known or this magistrate for Severus Alexander). At the moment ΛΑΙΚΟΣ seems the most likely. The new Concordia coin shows that the first leter is either a retrograde Ν or a damaged Λ.
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